This is, for me, about the most clever and funniest Andy Griffith episode. It's centered around Andy, Barney, and Opie's revulsion of Aunt Bee's "kerosene pickles". I as a child remember only having dill pickles and someone gave my mother their homemade sweet pickles. I think I ran to the sink because I thought they'd be about the same as the dill pickles I was accustom to in miniature form. I couldn't eat another pickle for my entire youth it seemed. So, perhaps, this lepisode resonates with me in particular.
The above said, this episode has some real "gut-busting" funny lines. Lines such as Barney exclaiming he didn't want to waste Bee's pickles due to eating a huge breakfast...and, that he'd smoke, I mean eat, it later. Smart quips abound, like "shoo fly, oh he's dead", "Mayberry's safe driving award (a quart of Bee's Pickle)-and "don't stop for anything until you get to Oregon", and Barney's trip to his cousins (dispose of pickles) who doesn't have a phone so there's no way to check on him. In the end the boys save Bee's feelings and have to "learn to love 'em".
As usual there's a bit of a morality play along with, in this case, some absolutely wicked humor. This show will never be matched for the smart weaving of living right while maneuvering land mines. In my mind, the whole series hardly gets better than this little vignette of how not telling the truth leads to consequences yet saving a person's feelings and dignity is sometimes worth self-sacrifice.